- Selected Stories
"Selected Stories", published by McClelland and Stewart in 1996, is a volume of short stories by Alice Munro. It collects stories previously published in her eight previous books. - David Brooks
David Brooks was born in Canberra, Australia in 1953. He graduated from the Australian National University in 1974. Brooks then studied abroad in America and received an M.A. degree from the University of Toronto. Continuing his education, he also completed his Ph.D from the University of Toronto after returning back to Australia in 1981 while teaching at the Royal Military College, Duntroon located in Canberra. - Michael Brown
Michael Brown (born Michael Lookofsky in New York, April 25, 1949), son of violinist and arranger Harry Lookofsky, was a gifted American singer-songwriter. He worked with Elkie Brooks on her 1975 album Rich Man's Woman. Brown has been the prime mover and leader in bands such as the Left Banke, Stories, the Beckies and Montage. - Paul O'Neill
Paul O'Neill OC LLD, (born 1928) is a historian, writer and producer born in Bay de Verde, Newfoundland, Canada, who has written many books on the history of Newfoundland. His parents, Josephine (Flynn) and James O'Neill, were prominent merchants in the town of Bay de Verde. Educated at St. Bonaventure's College in St. John's, National Academy of Theater Arts at New York, O'Neill was an aspiring actor in the United States and England from 1949 to 1952. - David Holt
David Holt is a four-time Grammy Award winner for his work as a musician. He is dedicated to performing and preserving traditional American music and stories. Holt plays ten acoustic instruments and has released numerous recordings of traditional mountain music and southern folktales. He also hosts a jazz program for public radio, Riverwalk, as well as a television program on folk music and culture on North Carolina public television, Folkways. - Juliet Marillier
Juliet Marillier is an Australian writer of fantasy, especially historical fantasy. She was born in Dunedin, New Zealand and grew up surrounded by Celtic music and stories. She currently lives in Western Australia. Marillier has just come out with a new book called Cybele's Secret. It is a sequel to her enganging children's novel Wilwood Dancing. The book will be coming out in 2008 in the U.S and came out recently in the U.K. - Ian Lloyd
Ian Lloyd (born 1947) was the singer, bassist, and lyricist of the band Stories, whose single "Brother Louie" was No. 1 on the Billboard Top 100 chart. Lloyd later sang backup vocals for the band Foreigner, among others. - D. Harlan Wilson
D. Harlan Wilson (born September 3 1971 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American short-story writer and novelist whose body of work is typically associated with the genres of irrealism, science fiction, fantasy, and Bizarro fiction. Elements of splatterpunk, absurdism, literary fiction, ultraviolence, and postmodernism deeply inform his writing, too. He is the author of several books, and his stories and flash fiction have appeared in magazines, … - Feng Jicai
Feng Jicai is an author who focuses most of his works on writing stories which explain historical events that have occurred in his hometown of Tianjin, China. He also writes stories about the lives of several intelligent men. Feng Jicai is also an artist who specializes in calligraphy and painting. Feng was born in 1942 in Tianjin, during World War II. After living in Tianjin until about 1982, he began serving as an executive chairman for a few literature associations. - Carl Switzer
Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer (August 7, 1927 - January 21, 1959) was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and expert hunting guide, most notable for appearing in the "Our Gang" short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters. - Kenny Aaronson
Kenny Aaronson (born 14 April 1952 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American bass guitar player. Aaronson started playing bass at the age of 15, and soon became a regular on the New York scene. While still a teenager, he played bass for heavy metal band Dust, who released two albums. In 1973, Aaronson joined the short-lived New York art rock band Stories, who reached #1 in the U.S. with "Brother Louie," a surprise hit cover version of the Hot Chocolate song, … - Miranda Krestovnikoff
Miranda Krestovnikoff (born 1973 in Buckinghamshire, England) is a television presenter specialising in Natural History and Archaeological programmes. She is also a qualified diver which has led to co-presenting opportunities in programmes with an underwater element. Miranda was educated at school in Reading before taking up a place at the University of Bristol to study Zoology. - Reggie Tsiboe
Reggie Tsiboe (born 1950, in Ghana) was one of the lead singers of the disco group Boney M. between 1982-1986 and later between 1989-1990. In 1982 Reggie originally replaced the dancer Bobby Farrell, but in 1984 Farrell rejoined the group and they followed as a quintet. In 1986 the original band split after 10 successful years, … - Jörn Rüsen
Jörn Rüsen was born in 1938. He studied history, philosophy, German literature and education at the University of Cologne from 1958 to 1966 gaining his doctorate. By 1969 he was an assistant professor for philosophy, at the University of Brunswick; moving to the Free University of Berlin in 1972.He gained his first full Professor post at the University of Bochum. - Edna Mayne Hull
Edna Mayne Hull (May 1, 1905, Brandon, Manitoba - January 20, 1975) was a science fiction writer who published under the name E. Mayne Hull. She was also the first wife of A. E. van Vogt, also a science fiction writer. After working as a private secretary for an influential Texan living in Alberta, she moved back to Winnipeg, where she met her future husband, Van. They got married on May 9th, 1939, shortly before his first story "Black Destroyer" was published. - Kitty Cheatham
Katherine "Kitty" Cheatman (1864 - January 5, 1946) was an American singer and actor. She was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father, Richard Boone Cheatham, was a Tennessee politician who was the mayor of Nashville from 1860 to 1862, and her mother was Frances Ann Bugg. Cheatham began her career in music at age 14 by performing at First Presbyterian Church in Nashville. She later went on to study in New York, Paris, and Berlin. - Twm Siôn Cati
Twm Siôn Cati is a figure in Welsh folklore, often described as the Welsh Robin Hood. Tales about him vary on details, but he is usually said to have been born in or very near to Tregaron, and to have been generally active in west Wales, with forays into England, in the late sixteenth century. Stories centre on his tricks, with which he outwitted law-abiding people and criminals alike. - Taraneh Javanbakht
Taraneh Javanbakht is an Iranian physicist, biochemist, composer, painter, poet, writer and translator. She was born in Tehran (Iran) on May 12, 1974. She received her B.S. degree in chemistry at Shahid Beheshti University in June 1996 and came to Paris in 1997 to complete her studies. She earned a M.Sc in 1998 and Ph.D. in chemistry at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 2002. - Vid Pečjak
Vid Pečjak is a Slovene author and psychologist. Pečjak was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has written 90 books, two thirds from the field of psychology. Most of his literary works are science fiction stories, novels, novelettes and also travel diaries and strips. Some of his works were written under his pseudonym "Div Kajčep" (palindrome of his name). - Hitomi Kuroishi
is a Japanese female singer-songwriter and composer, born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. She is credited simply as Hitomi for her vocals. She is noted for her involvement with the soundtrack of the "Last Exile" anime series, for which she composes as part of the group Dolce Triade (the other members are Maki Fujiwara and Yuki Yamamoto) in addition to performing the ending theme "Over The Sky". - Sándor Bródy
Bródy Sándor, or Sándor Bródy was a Hungarian author and journalist. After attending the schools of that city he devoted himself entirely to literature. From 1888 to 1890 he was editor of the "Erdélyi Híradó", published at Klausenburg, and was also connected with the "Erdélyi Képes Ujság" and the political daily "Magyarság". Since 1890 he was a member of the "Magyar Hírlap", … - Jonáš Záborský
Jonáš Záborský was a Slovak writer. He was an author of tales, epigrams, allegorical-philosophical poems, satirical poems, historical dramas, comedies and stories. His notable works include: * "Vstúpenie Krista do Raja" (1866) * "Lžedimitrijady" (1866) * "Najdúch" (1870) * "Faustiáda" (1912) - Tolu Ajayi
Toluwalogo Ajayi (born 1946) is a Nigerian poet and writer of fiction. Born in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Ajayi was educated in Nigeria and the United Kingdom; in the latter country, he qualified in 1970 as a physician at the University of Liverpool Medical School. He also specialized in psychiatry at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada. Most of Ajayi's novels and stories draw on his medical experience. - Wacław Sieroszewski
Wacław Sieroszewski was a Polish writer, Polish Socialist Party activist, and soldier in the World War I-era Polish Legions (decorated with the Virtuti Militari). For activities subversive of the Russian Empire, he had spent many years in Siberian exile. Sieroszewski's Siberian experiences became the subjects of his many stories and novels — "Na kresach lasów" (At the Edge of the Woods, 1894), "Dno nędzy" (The Depths of Misery, 1900), … - Wen Peixin
Wen Peixin, was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). She was born in Lanzhou, Gansu. She had a rough childhood and spent most of her days on the fields of her village Lanzhou along with her father and mother, tending to crops. She was playful even at such a young age and enjoyed napping on the fields whilst watching clouds. She then attended the village school at the age of 8 and began to learn to write. - Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick was an American writer, mostly known for his works of science fiction. In addition to his published novels, Dick wrote "approximately 121 short stories, most of them for science fiction magazines." At least eight of his stories have been adapted for film. <br><br> - Agatha Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE, and many have been adapted for television and radio and video games. - Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the fantasy and science fiction genres. She was first published in the 1960s. Her works explore Taoist, anarchist, feminist, psychological and sociological themes. She has received several Hugo and Nebula awards, … - Henry James
Henry James, OM (–), son of theologian Henry James Sr. and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality. - Kelly Link
Kelly Link is an American author of short stories born in 1969 (judging by this 2001 article). Her stories might be described as slipstream: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism. Link is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the MFA program of UNC Greensboro. In 1995 she attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop. Link and husband Gavin Grant manage their own small press Small Beer Press, based in Northampton, Massachusetts. - Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson (September 13 1876 - March 8 1941) was an American writer, mainly of short stories, most notably the collection "Winesburg, Ohio". His influence on American fiction was profound; his literary voice can be heard in Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, and others. - Siegfried Lenz
Siegfried Lenz is a German writer who has written twelve novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. Lenz and his wife, Liselotte, also exchanged over 100 letters with Paul Celan and his wife, Gisèle Lestrange between 1952 and 1961. - Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known today: "V." (1963), "The Crying of Lot 49" (1966), … - Jane Roberts
Jane Roberts was an American author who was known primarily as a psychic and trance medium or spirit medium who "channeled" a personality named Seth. She also purportedly channeled other personalities, including the deceased philosopher William James and the deceased painter Paul Cézanne. The publication of the Seth texts established her as one of the preeminent figures in the world of paranormal phenomena. - Washington Irving
Washington Irving was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip van Winkle" (both of which appear in his book "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon"), he was also a prolific essayist, biographer and historian. Irving and James Fenimore Cooper were the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving is said to have encouraged authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, … - Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (born 30 September 1921) is a Golden Globe award winning Scottish actress who is best known today for starring in the films "The King and I", "An Affair to Remember" and "From Here to Eternity". Nominated six times for an Academy Award as Best Actress, she never won, but was a recipient of an Academy Honorary Award for a motion picture career that has always represented "Perfection, Discipline and Elegance". - Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and director. He is best-known for starring in such films as "Catch-22", "The In-Laws", "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming", and "Little Miss Sunshine", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007. He is the father of actor Adam Arkin. - Nelson S. Bond
Nelson Slade Bond (November 23 1908 - November 4 2006) was an American author who wrote extensively for magazines, radio, television and the stage. Bond created science fiction and fantasy, as well as sports and crime fiction. His published fiction is mainly short stories, most of which appeared in pulp magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. Many were published in "Blue Book" magazine. He is particularly noted for his "Lancelot Biggs" series of stories. - Andrew Vachss
Andrew Henry Vachss (born 1942) is an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths. He is also a founder and national advisory board member of PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children. Vachss's last name is pronounced to rhyme with "tax". He is a native New Yorker. - Sophie Dahl
Sophie Dahl (born September 15, 1977 in London) is an English fashion model and author. Her mother is writer Tessa Dahl (daughter of the children's author Roald Dahl and the actress Patricia Neal) and her father is actor Julian Holloway (son of actor Stanley Holloway). Dahl was discovered by Isabella Blow on a London street at the age of 18. At a voluptuous dress size and 38DD bra-size, …
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